Day in pictures

Pigeons fly at the Khawja Naqashband Sahib shrine after a heavy snowfall in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir.

A stockpile of illicit arms burns in Nairobi - part of about 8,000 small and light weapons incinerated in the wake of growing concern over armed crime in Kenya.

A horse-drawn wagon belonging to a waste paper collector waits in front of a McDonald's restaurant in the centre of the Macedonian capital, Skopje.

An Animal Liberation activist poses as a slaughtered seal outside the Canadian Consulate in Sydney, Australia, to protest against Canada's annual seal hunt.

A US army soldier provides security during a patrol in Riyahd village in Iraq.

An Austrian skier takes part in the men's 10-km sprint competition at the ski stadium in the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, during the IBU World Cup biathlon final.

In Edinburgh, a Bonhams auctioneers employee is reflected in a pair of binoculars, which make up part of collection from German battleships sunk after World War I.

Pakistani activists hold effigies of the law and information ministers during a demonstration in front of the Supreme Court in Islamabad against the sacking of the chief justice.

Unknown people placed black strips on nude statues by Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland in Vigeland Park in Oslo.

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